Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.